Larry Hastings added the comment:
Yes, it seems I've been living in a fool's paradise, happy and ignorant. I
thought that the behavior of garden-variety "immutable" objects was like tuple,
where the implementor shored up the interface and the saboteur had to work
*really* hard to modify the c
R. David Murray added the comment:
"BUT THE INTERNAL MEMBER IS EXTERNALLY MUTABLE."
Your point being? This is Python, the consenting adults language :).
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nosy: +r.david.murray
resolution: -> invalid
stage: test needed -> committed/rejected
status: open -> pending
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Brett Cannon added the comment:
So what do you propose as a solution? Do you want to subclass tuple and then
override __getitem__() so they can't index into the underlying tuple? Use
__mangled names?
I mean if people are going to break the API to muck with stuff we can't stop
them (nor can th
New submission from Larry Hastings:
The documentation for Inspect.Signature and Inspect.Parameter states that the
objects are immutable. And they go to great lengths to provide a convenient
interface allowing you to "replace" members.
However, the objects make only a pathetic effort at being
